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Syrmien
[German], Syrmia / Sirmium
[Latin], Szerémség/Szerém
[Hungarian], and Srijem
[Croatian]; the Serbian language
usually use name Srem to
designate region. Syrmien is in
Yugoslavia/Serbia, between the Sava
(Save) & Danube (Donau) Rivers,
about 80 km long and 50 km wide.
Most of Syrmia is located in the
Srem and South Bačka districts
of Serbia's Autonomous Province
of Vojvodina. A small part of
the region around Novi Beograd,
Zemun, and Surčin is a part of
Central Serbia. The westernmost
part lies in eastern Croatia, in
the Vukovar-Srijem county.
The name Srem
(Syrmien) came from Roman times.

Today, the name Srem is
used in Serbian to designate
the region, whereas the name
Srijem
is used in Croatian.

Situated in the
Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina
province.

Lookups Guide:Eve Brown - Church book (Evang./Luth.) from the
village of Surtschin and includes the neighboring
villages of Aschanja, Betschmen, Detsch and Obresch.
By Michael Schmidt and published in 1980

Lookups Guide:Eve Brown - Church book (Evang./Luth.) from the
village of Surtschin and includes the neighboring
villages of Aschanja, Betschmen, Detsch and
Obresch. By Michael Schmidt and published in 1980

Budanovci is a village
in Serbia, situated in the municipality of Ruma, Srem
District, Vojvodina province. (South of Ruma)

C

Cerevic

Cerna, Croatia,
Vukovar-Srijem County (Official)

Cerna is a village and
a municipality in eastern Croatia, located half-way
between the cities of Vinkovci and Županja.

D

Detsch (German)

Dec, Serbia
(Official)

Lookups Guide:Eve Brown - Church book (Evang./Luth.)
from the village of Surtschin and includes the
neighboring villages of Aschanja, Betschmen, Detsch and
Obresch. By Michael Schmidt and published in 1980

Located on a hill overlooking the Danube
river, which forms the border with the Vojvodina region of Serbia.

VUKOVAR and ILOK (Part 2/2)
ILOK - WYLOK -
VJOLK - Reminiscences of a visit in 1999: The return drive was more pleasant
passing the lovely country sites through villages of Sarengrad and Sotin but
soon we were back to the realities of war after as we drove straight trough
the torn City of Vukovar. The return drive was more pleasant passing the
lovely country sites through villages of Sarengrad and Sotin but soon we
were back to the realities of war after as we drove straight trough the torn
City of Vukovar Regional History of Vukovar
& Ilok. (neat site, photos: Kurt McCrary)

After the
revolution of 1848/49 the “Voivodate
of Serbia and Temes Banat”
was created and used German as the official language. The new “voivodate”,
with Temeswar as its capital, included not only the Banat, but also the
Batschka and the districts Ruma and Illok of the
Comitat Syrmia, and reported directly to the Imperial Government in Vienna.
(read
more at "100th
Year Banater Swabian in Austria 1907-2007" by
Dr. Hans Dama)

A
village on the east of Croatia
near the border with Serbia. It
is connected by the D46 highway.
The village is 72 miles away
from Belgrade (Serbia), 98 miles
from Sarajevo (Bosnia), 155
miles from Zagreb (Croatia) and
160 miles from Budapest
(Hungary).

German community: Before
World War II Šidski Banovci was
mostly populated by Germans.
According to the census of 1910,
Banovci had 990 residents, and
668 were Germans. They had
developed a social life and a
multitude of public
institutions. The most important
was the local Protestant church.
Next door to the church was the
school, which served as the city
hall, and a bank was nearby.
Local residents cherished
traditional values, it was a
village that maintained its
strong work ethic. In late 1944
villagers had just barely
escaped from Sidski Banovci.
This was similar to that
experienced by thousands of
other ethnic Germans in the
latter stages of World War II.
The new post-war government
declared that ethnic Germans in
Yugoslavia were no longer
citizens and confiscated their
property. By 1945, nearly
500,000 Germans had been
expelled the term that would be
used in Article XIII of the
Potsdam Agreement was
“transfer”—from Yugoslavian
territory. The residents of
Sidski Banovci had some advanced
warning from the German Army
that they would have to leave
their homes and evacuate the
village. On October 17, with the
Sidski Banovci church-bells
pealing, a caravan of 40 to 50
families formed and proceeded
out of the village and into the
uncertain terrain ahead. They
headed northwest toward Hungary.
Huber family (Wilhelm Huber was
born in 1824 and became the
first Huber to settle in Sidski
Banovci), in book The Past
Rebuilt-The Huber Family Journey
to Success, will describe their
memories of that period.
(Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banovci,_Vukovar-Syrmia_County
)

German
Exonyms For Places In Croatia -
wikipedia - This is a
list of German
exonyms for toponyms in Croatia.
Part of Croatia was governed by
Austria-Hungary, and some Hungarian
exonyms became common in German, and may
be used interchangeably with the German
exonym for a period. These Hungarian
names are noted below. Also, parts of
Croatia ruled by Austria-Hungary were
formerly governed by Italy, and Italian
names also migrated to German usage.
These are also noted.

Lippincott's
Pronouncing Gazetteer: A Complete
Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical
Dictionary of the World By Thomas
Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) 1856.

Village
List researched and compiled by Jody
McKim, 2008

For
corrections, additions and links to our
Syrmia Village List, provide all known name
variants to Eve Brown.